Wilbur has talked about this too, Chris and Rose. More likely than not, he is finding a nonce form in the course of constructing the first stanza. Not a form that will fit where he wants the poem to go, but a form that will help him FIND where the poem wants to go. The same is true for me. First stanza? I'm just catching a tune. But I'd like to hear Nemo discuss this phenomenon in this particular poem. These tag lines whose rhymes bridge stanzas and are pretty far apart, strike me as a corollary to the "a meter-making argument." Aren't they the "matter-making integuments" of this poem?
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